The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-12
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


dala lines, was in the city yesterday on official
business.
R. B. Matthews has been appointed ticket re-
ceiver OF the Pennsylvania Company at Logans-
port, vice w. Ell. Anderson, deceased
The stockholders of the Peoria & Pekin Union
railway have elected the following board or d.
rectors: j. Gould, A. l.. Hopkins, Austin Cor
bin and d. J. Mackey Mackey succeeds Z. II.
Cummings.
The st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas road an
nounces that Mr.. c. Fl. Morrill, has been ap-
pointed general agent of that company. with
Office at Chicago in charge of territory on and
north of line of Wabash railway, East ST. Louis
TO Toledo.
All over the country, with very few exceptions,
railroads still showing approaching earnings,
and the extensions planned for the coming year
mark very general confidence on the part OF
railroad men that prosperous Tunes are likely 70
continue for some time to come
W. S. Speirs. of Peoria. Ill, has been ap-
pointed to the new Office created by the Lehigh
railway. He will have charge OF all through
business. and also superintend the two fast
freight lines operated by that railway. Ills
headquarters will be in Bethlehem, Pa.
Two hundred of the six hundred box cars the
Litchield car works building for the Bee
line are to be used in increasing the Decline
quota in the White line, which has been more or
less reduced by the wearing out and depreciation
of their quota in the White line service.
NJ g. Porter, of the l., P. Sc c.. and c. M
Coneway, of the Monon railway mail service,
summing between Indianapolis and Michigan
City, have been transferred, with twenty-five
other clerks, to the fast-mail run, between Indi-
annapolis and Pittsburg. The run is the hardest
In the West.
Steam bell ringers are becoming more popu-
lar daily, and deservedly SO, as they not only
a convenience to the engineer, but a safeguard
to railroad employees and all persons Who ind 1t
necessary to cross the yards and road beds of the
many and rapidly increasing railroad Ines of
this country.
General freight agents of the Indianapolis
lines will meet in this city next week to arrange
their tariffs to conform to the new law. The
sooner this is done and shippers are enabled to
know what rates are to be, the better. Business
le now partially stagnant, much doubt is
there as to this matter of rates
The Pennsylvania lines. west Of Pittsburg,
have adopted their official trademark a key
stone, which inscribed the words
"Pennsylvania Lines" This is a very appropriate
design, when it is considered that the State from
which the incorporate name of the parent stem
is taken is popularity known as the Keystone
State.
All the passenger engines on the c., L, ST. l.. &
c. road are being equipped with the Miller coupler
On the tanks instead of the linkand-pin connec-
ton in common use By this improvement the
train is handled with less trouble and in case Of
accident the results are not likely to be of as
serious character as where the ordinary link and
pin is used
Tho Brooks Locomotive Works are building
TWO heavy Swltch-englneS Tor the Bee-llne upon
plans and specifications of General Master Me-
Shanc Turreff, of this road. The engines rest on
shree pairs of driving wheels, so inches IN diam
ster; have an 18x24-inch cylinder smoke arch
end OF boiler, 81 inches; weight of engine alone,
80, 900 pounds.
Discussions among the members of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Section Foremen at
Chicago threaten to cause split. AS the mat
ter now stands, the brotherhood has two chiefs
and two secretaries, both having good follow
ing. The Council Bluffs contingent will prob
ably issue call for special national conven-
xtion. and a separation will be the result
On the Goth of this month some changes will
be made in the running time of the trains on the
Indianapolis Peru e. Chicago road. A train
will leave Michigan City at A. M, reach Indian
apolis at 3:45 P. M. The competition the Monon
is giving the l., P. & G. out Of Michigan City
makes it necessary for the l., P. & c. to run
trains faster and better to accommodate the
travelling public.
There is complaint that between Columbus,
o., and ST. Louis Too few coaches are run to &C.
commodate the present heavy travel Nearly
every day the smoker is filled with emigrants
and it forces all other classes of travel into the
ladies' day coach, where 1t would not be healthy
for a man to smoke little attention to this
matter would be appreciated by the patrons Of
those popular lines.
Evansville Ind, has six railroads, and unde,
the manner they now operated there is NJ
competition. d. j. Mackey controls all tn.
Northern and Eastern lines out of that city, ant
a Southern syndicate the Southern lines running
out from there. little healthy competition
would be appreciated by the business men of tn,
city and would tend to elevate the place as
commercial center.
Manager Noopan, of the B. & o. Kankake
Dispatch, has returned from the East feeling
nicely over the prospects that the cars of th
dispatch are to be run through to New Yorl
without breaking bulk This line has done con
siderable New York business, Notwithstanding
the difficulties it labored under in the way o
kuna oh hut fho vv dcol will mis-
line on par with the other through lines
Articles of association will be filed to-da,
with the Secretaries of the States of indians
and Illinois by company which proposes t
build road from nliana, a point on tn
indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield road t.
Quincy, ILL.,, or, in other words, it is the long
talked of extension of the l., D. e S. road west
ward. The parties who hold the bonds Of tn
1, D. e. S. are interested in this extension.
W. P Fishback and A. J. Kicks, special mas
ters appointed by joint order of Judge
Gresham and Jackson. in October last. in Gin
cinnat have filed their report with the Unte
States District Courts ut Cincinnati and In
dianapolis on all claims against Receiver
Dwight and Craig Of the Toledo, Cincinnati
ST. Louis narrow gauge road. Parties are give
one month in which to file exceptions, if an,
there be, to the report
The reduction of the freight cassihcatio
from thirteen to six classes will be blessing t
the railroads in more ways than one One Der
eft will be TO discourage q reduction Of rate,
Cutting, you know, is by no means uniform o
oil classes Of freight road that is doing onl
"a small business In one kind of freight will Gu
the tariff in order to obtain larger share an
vt the same time maintain its tariff on the bus
hess OF which it receives large proportion
One million dollars worth of stock in the I,
Aianapos & st. Louis railway has been offere
on the market at 10 cents on the dollar. This
not stock of the old organization, which is no
leased to the Bee-line, but new organizato
formed in this city year ago, with a sligi
from this city to St. Louis, and also extend
east The incorporators mostly men